We are Spark Media. From multiple award-winning documentaries to advocacy campaigns to innovative programming on the digital frontier, our work is about creating stories that connect people and ignite social change.

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First Lady of the Revolution

Storytelling that Reawakens History

First Lady of the Revolution

Storytelling that Reawakens History

Some biographies help us understand broad historical themes, some appeal to the universal emotions of the human experience, while others simply entertain with vivid characters and astonishing events. First Lady of the Revolution manages to do all three.

First Lady of the Revolution is an epic recalling of hemisphere-rocking events, protests, exile, revolution and reform seen through the eyes of a Southern belle. Henrietta Boggs, now 98 years old, has gifted us with the courage to try and better the world. Grateful and determined, we can only oblige.

“You don't let things happen. You shape them. ”

Henrietta Boggs, First Lady of the Revolution

Scattering CJ

Storytelling that Unites a Community

Scattering CJ

Storytelling that Unites a Community

The more we learned about CJ Twomey’s tragic suicide and his mother Hallie's attempts to honor his memory, the more we knew we had to tell their story. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. for people aged 15-24. And despite accounting for approximately 800,000 deaths worldwide every year, the topic of suicide is all too often misunderstood.

Now one family's quest for healing will stimulate a wider debate on the topic, giving it the sense of immediacy it deserves. But at its core, Scattering CJ is about life-changing journeys - emotionally for the Twomeys, physically for CJ's ashes, and for the participants on their individual pilgrimages, a little of both. As filmmakers, CJ's story also inspired our own journey, as we set out to discover how individual tragedy can be transformed into positivity for a whole community.

“Dear CJ, maybe one day your mom will find peace in realizing how many lives you have impacted in the most uplifting way.”

Kelly Vella, Scattering CJ

Anne & Emmett: the other

Storytelling that's Innovative

Anne & Emmett: the other

Storytelling that's Innovative

It is always exciting to work on projects that allow us to break out of traditional filmmaking and take advantage of today's most cutting edge storytelling technologies.

What's even more exciting is when those projects intersect with with our passion for social justice. To face the ugliness of intolerance as it lives today we are looking back at the stories of Anne Frank and Emmett Till - two teenagers who were killed due to institutionalized hate. Inspired by the provocative play, "Anne & Emmett," by Janet Langhart Cohen.

All too often, the world turns a blind eye to tragedy, wrongly convincing itself that nothing can be done. We've found no starker example of this than the conflict in Syria.

“We have now two wars, one against the regime and one against the extremists.”

Razan Shalab al-Sham, Red Lines

Sonata Mulattica

Storytelling that Speaks to the Resilience of the Human Spirit

Sonata Mulattica

Storytelling that Speaks to the Resilience of the Human Spirit

What we love about storytelling is its innate potential to inspire. What we love about art is its ability to transcend time, space, culture, and race.

Inspired by Rita Dove's book of vibrant poetry, Sonata Mulattica taps the sublime, transporting power of music, poetry, storytelling, history and human experience. This is a story of risk and revelation: great music and art, wherever it's born, lives not only to open our hearts but to transform our lives.

“This is a story about music and what it does to those who make it, whom it enslaves. Yes, slavery of all kinds enters the mix.”

Rita Dove, Sonata Mulattica

No Evidence of Disease

Storytelling that Drives Social Change

No Evidence of Disease

Storytelling that Drives Social Change

When we learned about the struggles surrounding GYN cancer—the lack of awareness, social stigmas, underfunded research, high mortality rates—we wanted to make some noise.

Because really, do you know anyone who is comfortable talking about vaginas? We aim to change that. Consolidating grassroots advocacy and putting GYN cancer into the spotlight, N.E.D. embodies our core mission in filmmaking: to be the spark that ignites social change. Having a kickass rock band at the forefront doesn't hurt either.

“Breast cancer has a ribbon, but GYN Cancer has a rock band!”

Globe-athon

Globe-athon

Storytelling that Opens Dialogue

We love it when we have the opportunity to reach beyond a film and get directly involved in the communities whose stories we tell.

With Globe-athon, we have joined the ranks of women's cancer advocates portrayed in our film No Evidence of Disease, and have been honored to help extend the reach of an awareness movement that has become near and dear to our hearts. And with hundreds of locations participating in all seven continents, we'd call it a success.

“This is an opportunity to unite people from all over the world... to try to make a difference.”

Dr. Larry Maxwell, Founder and Director of Globe-athon

Klandestine Man

Storytelling that Gives a Voice to Forgotten Heroes

Klandestine Man

Storytelling that Gives a Voice to Forgotten Heroes

Stetson Kennedy's extraordinary life could be an adventure novel. Actually, several adventure novels.

In his nine decades of "fighting the good fight," he threw a stunning storm of punches - from infiltrating the KKK to mobilizing against the near-slave treatment of immigrant workers to waging war on environmental degradation - with fierce and uncompromising prose, fighting intolerance and hate wherever he found it.